Netflix Android App Delayed Until Early Next Year
Netflix, the DVD-by-Mail company has an app out for the iPhone and iPad, but nothing out there for Android users. As a person that has a phone that runs on the Droid platform, I’d wondered why I wasn’t special enough to have this app, and today I learned why.
Apparently the Android platform isn’t secure enough for Hollywood executives. The Digital Rights Management (DRM) System isn’t standardized across all Android devices which makes movie studios concerned about privacy. Netflix’s product development team says that “, they are requirements we must fulfill in order to obtain content from major studios for our subscribers to enjoy.”
What does that mean for us Droid users that would really, REALLY (REALLY) like to manage their Netflix queue from our devices? Well, it means that we’re looking at the app making it to the Android Market early next year. BUT because so many devices support the Android Operating System, it may not be available to all users right away.
Hey, Netflix? Can I suggest that the MyTouch be one of the first devices to have access to this? Please?
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How you liking that whole “open” thing now, Android? LOL…
We still like it, douchebag,
whether netflix likes it or not (and in Steve Job’s face too), ANDROID is THE fastest growing mobile OS in the US and in the world, it is killing RIM BB and for sure destroying iOS.
people have spoken, they LOVE Android.
if Netflix want to reach to those customers, then they have to work something out otherwise another company with bright ideas will come and swoop Android users.
Millions of dollars involved and they can’t figure it out?
They can’t figure it out because millions of dollars are involved.
Netflix and Pirate Bay are going to team up to solve this issue i’m sure. BTW netflix, pretty sure you need to develop it for the Galaxy S phone line, cough* cough* VIBRANT! cough*
Netflix and DRM have zero to do with Android, or with “being open”. It is Hollywood that owns the content, and decides the rules. Android is still wide open, it is DRM that is blocking this from happening.
So go back to your safe, smut free, walled garden iPhone and try desperately to be able to view some porn on it. Oh, you can’t? How are you enjoying your “awesome” Apple product?